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The Westin St. Francis, formerly known as St. Francis Hotel, is a hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets in San Francisco, adjacent to the whole western edge of Union Square. The two 12-story south wings of the hotel were built in 1904, and the double-width north wing was completed in 1913, initially as apartments for permanent guests. [ 5 ]
San Francisco Bay Area. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. "Churches and temples". Discovering San Francisco. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. "Congregation Sherith Israel records, 1851–2003". Bancroft Library Online Archive of California at UC Berkeley. "Sherith Israel records, 1851–2000". Judah L. Magnes Museum at UC ...
In 1869, he emigrated to the United States, where he served as rabbi of New York City's (then) Orthodox Congregation Shaare Zedek. He moved from New York to San Francisco in 1874 to take the position of rabbi at Beth Israel. [12] Streisand was succeeded by Aron J. Messing in 1877 or 1878, [a] and died in San Francisco in January 1879. [12]
The Hotel Whitcomb is a San Francisco hotel that was built from 1911 to 1912. Located at 1231 Market Street, the Whitcomb opened in 1912 as San Francisco's temporary city hall and then reopened in 1917 as a 400-room hotel.
Location of San Francisco in California. ... 735 Market St. Financial District: 24 ... 1239–1245 Scott St. Western Addition: 82: House at 1249–1251 Scott Street ...
Congregation Emanu-El on Sutter Street (1866–1926), San Francisco. The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.
William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [3] [4] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house. The house was constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985 ...
The Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco & Residences is a 121 m (397 ft) mixed-use development at 757 Market Street in San Francisco, California, United States, near the Moscone Center. Completed in January 2001, the tower was the first skyscraper of the 21st century to be completed in the city.